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Funny, around 25 years ago as a university project I added IPv6 support to the Java JDK. Today we're still not there.

• echelon 3y ago
  On the scale of migrations, this is worse than Python 2 to 3 (which was really bad), but better than Perl to Raku (the relevancy is entirely gone). Perhaps a smaller migration should have been considered first.
  • jowea 3y ago
    At least py3 runs on the same hardware.
    • hot_gril 3y ago
      Most hardware supports ipv6 nowadays (I think), but the problem is something else.
  • hot_gril 3y ago
    I think the problem with Py2 to Py3 was that it was too big of a migration to be easy but also too small of a migration to be game-changing. Like, switching for seriously improved packaging, parallelism, or performance would've been more compelling. And yeah ipv6 could've been a much smaller change.
  • unixhero 3y ago
    Yeah did anyone make the switch to Raku??? I don't really understand it.
• p1mrx 3y ago
  Java's not there either: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8170568 https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8170568